Sophia Rabe-Hesketh

Sophia Rabe-Hesketh is a Professor in Educational Statistics at the Graduate School of Education and a member of the Interdepartmental Group in Biostatistics, both at the University of California, Berkeley. She also has a part-time position as Chair of Social Statistics at the Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of Education, University of London. She was previously a Reader in Statistics at the Department of Biostatistics and Computing at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.

Sophia is an applied statistician in the areas of social statistics, biostatistics and psychometrics. Her research interests include multilevel and latent variable modelling. Over the last few years she has been developing a general modeling framework (see GLLAMM below) and software to estimate the models. She is also involved in many collaborative projects with applied researchers.

Generalised Linear Latent And Mixed Models (GLLAMM) are a general class of multilevel latent variable models. The framework unifies and extends generalized linear mixed models, multilevel factor and item response models, multilevel structural equation models, and latent class models. Sophia has written a Stata program, gllamm, to estimate these models as part of joint work with Anders Skrondal and Andrew Pickles. Since 2002, the program has been used in over 200 peer-reviewed papers indexed in the ISI Web of Science by researchers in education, sociology, political science, economics, medicine, and statistics. Click here to find out more or to download the gllamm program files.

Books

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2008). Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata. (Second Edition). College Station, TX: Stata Press. Datasets and do-files Errata

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Everitt, B. S. (2006). A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata. (Fourth Edition). Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. Datasets

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2004). Generalized Latent Variable Modeling: Multilevel, Longitudinal and Structural Equation Models. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. Datasets and do-files Remarks and corrections Reviews

Everitt, B. S. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2001). Analyzing Medical Data using S-PLUS. Springer. Scipts and datasets

Everitt, B. S. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (1997). The Analysis of Proximity Data. London: Arnold.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2008). Classical latent variable models for medical research. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 17, 5-32.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. Skrondal, A. and Gjessing, H.K. (2008). Biometrical modeling of twin and family data using standard mixed model software. Biometrics 64 (1), 280-288.

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2007). Redundant overdispersion parameters in multilevel models for categorical responses. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 32, 419-430.

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2007). Latent variable modelling: A survey. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 34, 712-745.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2007). Multilevel and latent variable modeling with composite links and exploded likelihoods. Psychometrika 72, 123-140.

Zheng, X. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2007). Estimating parameters of dichotomous and ordinal item response models using gllamm. The Stata Journal 7, 313-333.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2006). Multilevel modelling of complex survey data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 169, 805-827.
Dataset and do-file

Miranda, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2005). Maximum likelihood estimation of endogenous switching and sample selection models for binary, count, and ordinal variables. The Stata Journal 6, 285-308.

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Skrondal, A. and Pickles, A. (2005). Maximum likelihood estimation of limited and discrete dependent variable models with nested random effects. Journal of Econometrics 128, 301-323.

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Skrondal, A. and Pickles, A. (2004). Generalized multilevel structural equation modelling. Psychometrika 69, 167-190.

Landau, S., Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Everall, I. (2004). Nonparametric one-way analysis of variance of replicated bivariate spatial point patterns. Biometrical Journal 46, 19-34.

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2003). Multilevel logistic regression for polytomous data and rankings. Psychometrika 68, 267-287.
ASCII data and Stata do-file

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Pickles, A. and Skrondal, A. (2003). Correcting for covariate measurement error in logistic regression using nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation. Statistical Modelling, 3, 215-232.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. and Pickles, A. (2003). Maximum likelihood estimation of generalized linear models with covariate measurement error. The Stata Journal 3, 385-410.

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2003). Some applications of generalized linear mixed models in epidemiology: repeated measures, measurement error and multilevel modelling. Norwegian Journal of Epidemiology 13 (2), 265-278.

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Skrondal, A. and Pickles, A. (2002). Reliable estimation of generalised linear mixed models using adaptive quadrature. The Stata Journal 2, 1-21.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2001). Parameterization of multivariate random effects models for categorical data. Biometrics 57 (4), 1256-1264. Local

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Yang, S. and Pickles, A. (2001). Multilevel models for censored and latent responses. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 10, 409-427. Local

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Toulopoulou, T. and Murray, R. (2001). Multilevel modeling of cognitive function in schizophrenic patients and their first degree relatives. Multivariate Behavioral Research 36, 279-298. Local

Bullmore, E. T., Suckling, J., Overmeyer, S., Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Brammer, M. J. (1999). Global, voxel and cluster tests, by theory and permutation, for a difference between two groups of structural MR images of the brain. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 18, 32-42.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. (1998) Analysing violent incidents and other events. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 7, 204-209.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. Bullmore, E.T. and Brammer, M. J. (1997). The analysis of functional magnetic resonance images. Statistical Methods in Medical Research 6, 215-237.

Brammer, M. J., Bullmore, E. T., Simmons, A., Williams, S. C. R., Grasby, P. M., Howard, R. J. Woodruff, P. W. R. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (1997). Generic brain activation mapping in fMRI - a nonparametric approach. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 15, 763-770.

Bullmore, E. T., Brammer M. J., Williams, S. C. R., Rabe-Hesketh, S., Janot, N., David, A., Mellers, J., Howard, R. and Sham, P. (1996). Statistical methods of estimation and inference for functional MR image analysis. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 35, 261-277.

Rabe, S. and Mardia, K. V. (1994). Generalised Ising models and their applications. Journal of Applied Statistics 21, 487-502.

Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2008). Generalized linear mixed effects models. In G. Fitzmaurice, M. Davidian, G. Verbeke and G. Molenberghs (eds.). Longitudinal Data Analysis: A Handbook of Modern Statistical Methods. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC. Forthcoming.

Bollen, K., Rabe-Hesketh, S. and Skrondal, A. (2008). Structural equation models. In Box-Steffensmeier, J. M., Brady, H. and Collier, D (eds.). Oxford Handbook on Political Methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

Rabe-Hesketh, S., Skrondal, A. and Zheng, X. (2007). Multilevel structural equation modeling. In Lee, S.-Y. (ed.). Handbook of Latent Variable and Related Models. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 209-227.

Skrondal, A. and Rabe-Hesketh, S. (2007). Multilevel and related models for longitudinal data. In de Leeuw, J. and Meijer. E. (eds.). Handbook of Multilevel Analysis. New York: Springer, pp. 275-299.

Editor of Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2006-present.

Book series editor for the Chapman & Hall/CRC series on Statistics in the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2006-present.

Editor for 'Longitudinal and Multilevel Modelling' in Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science. Wiley 2005.

Associate editor of Psychometrika, 2005-present.

Associate editor of Statistical Modelling, 2005-present.

Associate editor of The Stata Journal, 2001-present.

Book review editor for Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2000-2003.

Guest editor for a special issue on "Latent Variable Modeling" of Statistical Methods in Medical Research 17 (1), 2008.

Guest editor for a special issue on "Analysis of Medical Images" of Statistical Methods in Medical Research 6 (3), 1997.

Member of editorial board of Structural Equation Modeling, 2006-present

Member of editorial board of Psychological Methods, 2007-present

Other professional service and honours

73rd Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Durham, NH, USA, 2008.

XXIX International Congress of Psychology, Berlin, Germany, 2008.

Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, USA, 2007.

Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2007.

34th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, London, Canada, 2006.

Winemiller Conference on Methodological Developments of Statistics in the Social Sciences. University of Missouri, Columbia, MS, USA, 2006.

14th International Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Tilburg, The Netherlands, 2005.

Biennial Conference of the "Fachgruppe Methoden und Evaluation" of the German Psychological Society. University of Münster, Germany, 2005.

Division of Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2005.

24th Biennial Conference of the Society for Multivariate Analysis in the Behavioral Sciences, Jena, Germany, 2004.

Annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, San Diego, CA, USA, 2004.

Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2004.

Berkeley Evaluation and Assessment Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2004

School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle, UK, 2003.

Fourth International Amsterdam Conference on Multilevel Analysis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003

Neyman Seminar, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2003.

California Center for Population Research and Department of Sociology. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2003.

Inter Faculty Statistics Seminar Series, University of Southampton, UK, 2003.

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, London, UK, 2003

Generalized linear latent and mixed models. Course at the XXIV International Biometric Conference (IBC2008), Dublin, Ireland, 2008.

Generalized linear latent and mixed models. Course at the Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Statistical Association (with Anders Skrondal), Tromsø, Norway, 2007.

Multilevel modeling using Stata. Course at the 2006 Summer Update Program in Public Health and Epidemiology (with Anders Skrondal), Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Morelos, Mexico, 2006.

Generalized linear latent and mixed models. Course at the Joint Statistical Meetings 2006, sponsored by the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association (with Anders Skrondal), Seattle, WA, USA, 2006.

Multilevel Modelling for Longitudinal Survey Data. Course at MOLS 2006: Methodology of Longitudinal Surveys (with Anders Skrondal). University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 2006.

Generalized linear latent and mixed models. Biennial Conference of the "Fachgruppe Methoden und Evaluation" of the German Psychological Society (with Anders Skrondal). University of Münster, Germany, 2005.

Generalized linear latent and mixed models. 2005 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium sponsored by International Chinese Statistical Association (with Anders Skrondal). Washington DC Metropolitan Area, USA, 2005.

Generalized latent variable modeling. SAMSI (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute) theme year on Latent Variable Models in the Social Sciences (with Anders Skrondal). Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, 2005.

Multilevel Modeling using the Stata program gllamm. Course at the 2005 Summer Update Program in Public Health and Epidemiology (with Anders Skrondal). Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Morelos, Mexico, 2005.

Generalized latent variable modeling. Tutorial at the Workshop on Latent Variable Models and Complex Survey Data, part of the SAMSI theme year on Latent Variable Models in the Social Sciences (with Anders Skrondal). Montreal, Canada, 2005.

Multilevel and latent variable modeling of discrete data. Preconference course, Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (with Anders Skrondal). Pacific Grove (Monterey), CA, USA, 2004.

Generalized linear latent and mixed modeling. Preconference course, 19th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (with Anders Skrondal). Florence, Italy, 2004.

Generalized linear latent and mixed models (GLLAMMs). Workshop at the Third North American Users' Group Meeting (with Anders Skrondal). Boston, MA, USA, 2004.

Multilevel Modeling of Discrete Responses. Center on Quantitative Social Science Research, University of California, Davis, CA, USA, 2004.

Multilevel and latent variable modeling using gllamm. Preconference course at the International Biometric Society - Nordic Region Conference (with Andrew Pickles and Anders Skrondal). Uppsala, Sweden, 2003.

Multilevel Models. Short Course Programme, Center for Applied Statistics (with Iraj Kazemi). Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. Latent variable models. Lancaster, UK, 2003.

Elected member of the International Statistical Institute

Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society

Member of the American Statistical Association

Member of The International Biometric Society

Member of the Psychometric Society

Member of the American Educational Research Association

Member of the National Council on Measurement in Education